When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

Split a piece of wood and I am there.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Though our feelings come and go, God's love for us does not.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger